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Because it isn't religion itself that dictates which one you end up in, it's you and your own belief whether you deserve to suffer eternally or not.

And Damian, who has already suffered through so much shit growing up, who decided to leave behind this centuries old legacy to pursue a better cause, be a better person and then dying to protect someone he loves, only to never end up thinking himself as a child that deserve salvation is such an important and interesting aspect of his character.

And mind you, he was a 10 year old thinking this.

Like, Damian isn't just the mean little asshole some people reduce him to be. He is actively suffering for the decisions and the life forced on him since his birth. And we can see this even after he came back from the dead.

During the Year of Atonement, when he did not hesitate to sacrifice himself to defeat Den Darga, when he literally died again a second time, we can see how big of a guilt he posseses inside for his actions during the Year of Blood.

And the guilt itself is a part of his character, and it's him who needs to learn to forgive himself but can't due to all the fucked up shit that keeps happening to him.

Alfred getting murdered right in front of his eyes, temporarily living with Deathstroke after that video Tim left him after his 'death', him continuously coming back to the Lazarus Island no matter how many times he gets brutall killed or thrown off a cliff...

Not to mention how Bruce treated him over the years, Damian was never given a safe and steady environment to properly heal himself. That's why he can't stop punishing himself for every little mistake (e.g. Damian punching the sand bag bloody during Fraction's run) or even things that weren't really his fault.

Like, let's stop and consider that time he started taking acting lessons because he wanted to know what it meant to be someone else, because inwardly, he felt shameful of who he was. And no amount of saving people and becoming a hero really changed that.

What I mean to say is that, he's such an interesting and complex character and I think it's a shame that he gets reduced to this stereotypical, cartoonish version of himself stripped from anything that makes him interesting.

don't do this. don't use genAI. even if your professors give you permission. even if they ask for it or suggest it. if they do anything short of directly requiring it (and I weep, because I've already seen assignments that require it) don't touch that crap. if they do require it, stick it to them. be as maliciously compliant as possible. be a nightmare.

I know it might sound easier right now -- just plug in your assignment and get the answers. you don't care about this class anyway, it's not for your major, you don't see the value of the assignment.

but for your own sake, for the sake of your education and mind, and for the sake of the future world we want to have: learn the stuff. you are not as stupid as the corporate bizzaro kings who want to rule the world think you are, so don't give them reasons to believe it.

and odds are good genAI is gonna give you corrupted info anyway -- more and moreso as the machines cannibalize themselves.

I’ve combined my three mlb au posts into one with some editing done to them.

I’ve been thinking about if I should write this au, draw it, or do some of both.

Sorry that this is a bit of a mess.

Okay, so this is a miraculous ladybug au. Now marinette’s parents died when she was younger, so she was put in her grandma’s care. Now we all know that Marinette’s nona travels a lot so I imagine that even after she gets marinette she still continues traveling and takes marinette with her. So Marinette doesn’t really have any friends and she wasn’t bullied by Chloe.

She’s multilingual and can speak French, Chinese, Italian, and english somewhat fluently. Since she’s constantly traveling I imagine she would be taught by her nona, so there won’t be too much of a language barrier at some of the places they travel to.

Marinette still wants to be a fashion designer.

She’s not as pushover and can be kinda of direct.

She doesn’t get the ladybug miraculous, because she joins the class after master fu gives the black cat and ladybug miraculous out.

So I imagine since she never stayed in the same place for very long she doesn’t really know how to make and retain a friendship. She also speaks more formally than other people because she isn’t used to using French as much and has a hard time with lingo.

Now since Adrien is also not the best at socializing and is rather dense, they have very awkward conversations, and until he finds out she likes fashion design they have a hard time holding a conversation.

Marinette makes gifts for her friends randomly.

So in this au Alya would probably get the ladybug au.

I imagine Master Fu at first just gave Adrien the black cat miraculous and only decided to give someone the ladybug miraculous after seeing that Adrien wasn’t doing too well on his own.

Fu gives Alya the ladybug miraculous after seeing Alya run after the akuma to film it.

Adrien still gets the black cat ring, but doesn’t have a crush on this ladybug. 

I’m trying to think of a name for Alya.

Dame Bug, because Dame means lady in french

Rouge Bug, because Rouge means red in french

Coccinelle is french for ladybug/ladybird

* body language masterlist

* a translator that doesn’t eat ass like google translate does

* a reverse dictionary for when ur brain freezes

* 550 words to say instead of fuckin said

* 638 character traits for when ur brain freezes again

* some more body language help

When I was in therapy after surviving years of domestic violence, my therapist had to tell me that my personality was primed for abuse and we needed to work on that so I would be better equipped to see the red flags and respond appropriately in the future.

I'm still working on this, and it's been 8 years. If you tell someone how you want to be treated, what behaviors you don't tolerate in your life, what you're looking for in that relationship, and they react negatively, don't compromise yourself. Just move on.

I'm not comfortable with that.

I'd rather not, but thank you for the offer!

You're welcome to disagree, but that's not something I'm okay with.

No.

It's personal, and I'd prefer to keep it private.

That doesn't work for me. How about x

I respect your opinion, but I'd rather do it my way.

That is behavior that I don't tolerate.

To each their own.

I'm not looking for feedback right now, but if I'm looking for input later, I'll let you know.

Oh, I'm not sure I agree; I thought x

When you did/said x, I wasn't okay with that.

I don't accept your apology.

I can accept your apology once you've addressed the problem.

Hey, could you help me with x?

I need to stop.

I need some time to myself.

I get it, when you’re someone who writes a lot and talks a lot, it’s hard to keep things readable, but it’s not as much about cutting out the fat(that can be a problem) so much as a formatting issue. 

You are also actively NERFING yourself by not formatting it correctly, it can make impactful scenes feel so, so much better. Compare this, 

To THIS. 

Easier to read, and hits harder. 

i made one of those silly ship charts!!!! feel free to use 'em, credit is apprecated but absolutely not required (my name's on the chart anyway LMAO) it also works for queerplatonic and platonic relationships too!!!!!

a few colour variations under the cut :3

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

(adding your tags since I'm addressing them)

It’s polite, for one. Professional doesn’t need to mean elaborate—in fact, most professional emails are aiming to be as clear and concise as possible. (in english at least, I know some other languages have some very complicated and elaborate email etiquette)

Greetings and signatures also don’t need to be elaborate. I feel like lots of people overthink it and assume that professional emails need the whole “dear x, my name is x and I am writing this email to inform you about [topic], sincerely [my name and all my contact info]” shebang, when really it’s as simple as adding a quick greeting/signature and avoiding super informal slang.

Here’s an comparison using art commission inquiry as the topic, written with zero extra fluff:

Hi, Are you currently open for commissions? Thanks, [my name]

If I want to add a little more fluff, maybe I write:

Hi, I love your art and wanted to ask if you're currently open for commissions. Here are details of what I'm interested in. Thanks for your time! Thanks/best/etc, [my name]

Those are very short while also being more polite than an email that just says:

are u open for comms??

with zero greeting/signature and very informal tone. 

There’s still a person on the other side reading that email, and just like how being polite with a customer service agent on the phone will get you better results than being rude with them, sending a clear and professional email will have you taken more seriously by whoever is reading it. All 3 emails get the same point across, but the last one leaves a much worse impression. You don’t speak to your close friends the same way you’d speak to strangers, and it’s the same in text form. I get so many emails that are just abrupt questions, with not even a quick "thank you" either in the initial email or as a follow-up after I respond, because they ghost me as if I'm just a chat bot answering questions.

It took me ages to figure out they were treating writing emails like they were talking to a chatbot.

Now besides the obvious issues - I cannot help you if I spend the better part of three days trying to pull basic information out of you - these messages look like spam. More importantly, they can come across as a scam, and that makes it even less likely to get the problem fixed.

The chat box comment makes sense though. Bc I do that or speak to a robot like that until I can actually speak to a real person. Maybe ppl my age and older just assume kids to know that?

front half of daycare

back half of daycare

Daycare Theatre references

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Okay strap yourself in. This became a Karma sexuality meta. warning for koro q spoilers.

This centres around Bitch Sensei and her 'charm' ability. Note that Nagisa 'charms' (read: he doesn't actually, everyone just thought he was hot) 3E in chapter two, but what I'm talking about here is the sort of mind-control ability, which is consistently represented by a heart around the head.

This section of the panel speaks clearly. You can only be charmed if you're attracted to women. Hell, "are you gay" is right there (I don't have access to the Japanese rn so I can't double check the exact wording).

We see later that Karasuma is unaffected. Again, I can't check the exact wording right now, but I imagine the original Japanese is pretty similar. I think here, the implication is that Karasuma is somewhere on the ace spectrum.

We get to a point in the chapter where all the 3E men are enchanted. It works on EVERYONE except Karma and Nagisa. Now why might that be, hm? So at this point, the inference we can take from this is that neither of them are attracted to women.

(okay, Korosensei was pretending to be infected, but he has magic big bad powers so he doesn't count)

She even throws them off a tower for it. Maybe Irina moonlights a writer for the CW.

Amazingly they still continue to argue about it when everyone's safe. They address that it's a little abnormal for Karasuma to not have been affected. But... Karma and Nagisa are just stood there, in the same boat, and this is never addressed. Interesting.

So that's Evidence One, right.

So Evidence Two, which is the juicy bit, is actually on the last ever page of Koro Q. And lemme tell you, I bought this book the day it came out (physically, in Japan) and my jaw dropped. Yet nobody really knows about it and it's honestly upsetting.

Basically, Nagisa says something wholesome and Okajima and Mimura are like 'oh no he's hot'. Which I mean, Nagisa's adorable I can't blame the guys. What's important to note is that they use the exact same design as with Bitch Sensei, which implies it follows similar rules.

But then we get to the holy panel.

Yes, Karma is infatuated. With Nagisa. Official adjacent material where Karma is explicitly attracted to Nagisa. I think it's pretty obvious why this is kind of a big deal. And also why I headcanon him as gay nowadays.

But, you might point out, he said he liked Okuda in Kyoto!

...Okay what you have to understand about Japanese is it's reaaaaally vague and contextual sometimes. So when you translate the meaning to English, it comes off with a slightly different nuance. In other words, I think it's a little stronger with implied romance in English.

Maehara says "Ki ni naru ko iru?" which is translated as 'is there a girl you're interested in?'. And yes, this is accurate, but even despite the obvious context the phrase 'ki ni naru' can also mean 'to care about', 'feel anxious about', or even interest in a non-romantic way. So there's that to contend with.

Either way though, Karma's reasoning is that she can make him chloroform or something. What he actually says in a nutshell is like 'the scope of my schemes can widen'. I don't reaaaally take that as much of a romantic admission. I stan their friendship though, to be clear.

TLDR, that tangent aside, to me at least this is the single (close to) canon 'no way of denying it' instance of Karma being attracted to anybody. And it's glorious. Hence, Karmagisa is at least half canon in Koro Q.

I say half because we never get any kind of confirmation that Nagisa likes Karma. All we know is he's not straight.